»You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge«

There is a reason why Elisabeth Selbert, Helene Weber, Frieda Nadig, and Helene Wessel had to fight in the Parliamentary Council of 1948–49 to add the phrase “Men and women have equal rights” to the constitution despite initial resistance.

It took another decade before women could have bank account or a job with their husbands' permission.

It took until 1997 before martial rape was a officially a crime.

And even now where we have an alleged case of fake porn and identity theft by the husband of famous woman, is the first reaction of the CDU deflection: We can’t discuss violence against women with considering the image of women in Islam.

What a bunch of nonsense. These are distinct problems that can easily handled separately.

But it’s always the same pattern, the scapegoats are either poor, jobless or migrants but don’t ever touch the real problems.

I mean... Yes. Not in the in the dark sense, but in the "working as designed, and you weren't around to be asked input from" sense. Jefferson was really big on sunset dates on these sorts of things specifically so each generation could weigh in on the old and change things over time instead of living in an ossified mausoleum of the collective institutional detritus of the dead.